Rebecca Van Ornam is an Omaha muralist who has been working with “A Midsummer’s Mural” for seven years. She graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha with an art history degree in 2013. At UNO, Rebecca was the president of the Organization for the Advancement of the Arts, UNO’s student art association. Rebecca interned at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2012 and with muralist Dave Lowenstein in 2013 on the mural “Working Together Towards A People’s Art” in Hastings, Nebraska. It was the last of 6 murals done for the Mid-America Arts Alliance Mural Project. She attended the Community Built Association Conference in 2014 and assisted Caryl Yasko, a pioneer in the community mural movement, with a mural in downtown Davis, CA. Her mural design work includes the 13th Street Mural and the Murdock Museum Mural in Murdock, NE.

Alumalite and mural designed and painted by Rebecca Van Ornam for a residence